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Comment on WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere

dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.

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EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao

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roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My wife love it too even though she didn’t play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.

She couldn’t get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.

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- JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  I did have to explain DKP
  
  “So basically imagine if capitalists distributed loot”
  
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